The Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race is one of Australia’s flagship offshore yacht races, an icon of Queensland’s beautiful coast and the highest profile Easter Weekend sporting event in Australia. Each year the yachts set sail from beautiful Moreton Bay on Good Friday cheered on by thousands of onlookers from the shore at Shorncliffe, in Brisbane and on the water at Bramble Bay.

The sixty seventh edition of this 308 nautical mile ocean classic will start on Good Friday, April 3rd 2015 at 11am. From the start, yachts proceed via a mark off Redcliffe Point to the North West Channel up to Caloundra and through to Gladstone.

Entrants will include the countries best race boats from Queensland as well as interstate rivals. In 2014, Queensland Racer ‘Black Jack’ took an impressive line honours win whilst the Tasmanian registered ‘Alive’ topped the timesheets on handicap and won the prestigious Courier Mail Cup, one of the oldest perpetual trophies in Australia that has been competed for on a continual basis.

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